28/04/2016
Maersk Receives Authorization from the Board of Directors to Operate in Marín
The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Marín and Pontevedra Estuary, meeting this afternoon, agreed to grant Maersk Spain SLU authorization to provide commercial container shipping services at the Port of Marín. The President of the Port Authority informed the Board of the upcoming start of operations by this shipping company following the agreement reached between the Danish company and Pérez Torres Marítima, the concessionaire of the container terminal at the Port of Marín. The board members expressed their satisfaction with the increased activity this traffic will bring to the region.
The President noted that the Port of Marín has been providing reliable and high-quality service to major international container shipping lines, including those operating transoceanic routes, for over twenty years. Marín is the first port of call in Europe for several regular shipping lines from the Americas and has demonstrated its ability to offer all container traffic services quickly, safely, and efficiently, handling megaships over 280 meters in length and with a capacity of more than 4,000 TEUs.
The Port of Marín's container terminal has several berths totaling 500 meters in length and drafts of 14 meters (currently being expanded to 15 meters), as well as approximately 500 reefer connections, specialized machinery, and all the necessary services to handle international and transoceanic traffic. These include modern Border Inspection Post (BIP) facilities with six inspection lanes, which will be expanded to nine.
The terminal serves clients throughout Galicia, Portugal, and neighboring regions. Furthermore, the Port of Marín's cold storage capacity exceeds 260,000 cubic meters for both frozen products and fruit. Furthermore, the Port of Marín has a direct motorway connection and a railway line right at the dock, another essential element for traffic such as container shipping. Marín is one of the leading ports in Spain in terms of the percentage of rail transport it utilizes, making it a pioneering port in intermodality that serves an increasingly larger hinterland, currently offering three weekly train services to the Mediterranean region, southern Spain, and southern Portugal.
